09:30 - 11:00 Panel on Conflict Migration and Health

Chair: Prof Ibrahim Abubakar, Director of the Institute for Global Health (IGH), UCL

Co-convenors: Dr Miriam Orcutt and Dr Delan Devakumar, both UCL IGH

This session will draw on one of the themes of the UCL-Lancet Migration and Health Commission, namely, forced migration. Our panel will present 3-4 country case studies, and will use this as the basis for a discussion on the changing nature of conflict and the impact on health, with a focus on taking action on improving health in conflict/migration.

Speakers and themes

Syria - Dr Miriam Orcutt, Migration and Health Specialist MSF; and UCL Institute for Global Health

Focus: direct attacks on healthcare and HCWs, health care worker migration

Yemen - Andre Heller Perache, MSF Board of Directors; previous head of MSF UK Programmes Unit 

Focus: internal displacement, health system disintegration

South Sudan  - Elizabeth Harding, Humanitarian Advisor, MSF

Focus: internal and cross border displacement from protracted conflict

Libya - Dr Syed Arif Hussain, International Organization for Migration, Libya

Focus:  detention conditions and cross border care